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Vanessa Redgrave

30th January 1937 Greenwich, London, England, UK Acting

Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and political activist. Redgrave rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in the Shakespeare comedy As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since starred in more than 35 productions in London's West End and on Broadway, winning the 1984 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers, and the 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. She also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the title role in the film Julia (1977). Her other nominations were for Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), Isadora (1968), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Bostonians (1984), and Howards End (1992). Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons (1966), Blowup (1966), Camelot (1967), The Devils (1971), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Mission: Impossible (1996), Atonement (2007), Coriolanus (2011), and The Butler (2013). Redgrave was proclaimed by Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as "the greatest living actress of our times", and has won the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, BAFTA, Olivier, Cannes, Golden Globe, and the Screen Actors Guild awards.

154 Movies 36 TV Shows 1 In Production 191 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Anonymous poster
Anonymous 21st October 2011 as Queen Elizabeth I
Cars 2 poster
Cars 2 11th June 2011 as The Queen / Mama Topolino (voice)
Miral poster
Miral 15th September 2010 as Bertha Spafford
Ein Job poster
Ein Job 26th September 2008 as Hannah Silbergrau
Restraint poster
Restraint 19th August 2008 as Sky News Reader #2
Atonement poster
Atonement 27th February 2007 as Briony Tallis (Age 77)
Venus poster
Venus 2nd September 2006 as Valerie
Good Boy! poster
Good Boy! 10th October 2003 as The Greater Dane (voice)
Byron poster
Byron 27th September 2003 as Lady Melbourne
Mirka poster
Mirka 10th March 2000 as Kalsan
1961 poster
1961 5th March 2000 as Edith Tree
Wilde poster
Wilde 1st September 1997 as Lady Speranza Wilde
Sparrow poster
Sparrow 4th February 1994 as Suor Agata
They poster
They 14th November 1993 as Florence Latimer
Yanks poster
Yanks 19th September 1979 as Helen
Agatha poster
Agatha 9th February 1979 as Agatha Christie
Julia poster
Julia 1st October 1977 as Julia
Vacation poster
Vacation 4th September 1971 as Immacolata Meneghelli
Isadora poster
Isadora 14th September 1968 as Isadora Duncan
Camelot poster
Camelot 25th October 1967 as Guenevere
Maggie poster
Maggie 25th January 1964 as Maggie
Nip/Tuck poster
Nip/Tuck 22nd July 2003 as Dr. Erica Noughton
Byron poster
Byron 1st January 2003 as Lady Melbourne
Wagner poster
Wagner 3rd October 1983 as Cosima von Bulow
Today poster
Today 14th January 1952 as Self
The Crystal Planet poster Coming soon
The Crystal Planet 13th August 2026 as The Matriarch (voice)